Siddhartha Gautama
You two would probably really get along! Founder of Buddhism

"All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?"


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In my last post, on August 4th, I made the following comment: "If I had a paid membership, I'd consider taking a poll (assuming I could figure out how)." Later that morning, Live Journal sent me an email to let me know that I had received an anonymous gift of 12 months of paid account time. I am appreciative, curious, and a little embarrassed. ( Read more... )

I don't usually do these but having responded to this one in ghislaine 's journal, I guess I'm kind of obligated. Here goes:

Respond to this post and I will give you three words that I think are accurately descriptive of you.

If you participate, I ask that you return the favor by posting this in your own journal.

Last X-mas season, my friend, tactisle , wrote ( Read more... )

I think that part of the reason that I was as disturbed as I was (not that I need a reason) by the "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required." tee shirt that I saw on line last night, was that I was still sitting with some of the emotional impact of the intro at www.abolishthenword.com which I had viewed earlier in the day.

So I googled information about a very recent executive order from Bush and found a pretty useful article and even the order itself on WorldNetDaily which had a fair amount of advertising with a very conservative slant. One of those ads was for a tee shirt company ( thoseshirts.com ) with the slogans "Right shirts done right". I was curious and ( Read more... )

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The layout of my LJ has changed and I haven't changed it.

I'd say it went pretty well, over all.

Senator John Kerry has called for a filibuster of the Alito nomination, ( Read more... )